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How EMC Fits into Oracle’s Ecosystem
Steve Manley, CTO of EMC’s Backup and Recovery Systems visited theCube this week during our live event coverage at Oracle OpenWorld 2011, and discussed how his unit and company (in particular VMware) blend into Oracle’s ecosystem. The discussion with Wikibon’s founder Dave Vellante started with a look into the more significant trends shaping the backup industry. Manley ...
HP Finalizes Autonomy Deal, Ellison Claims Oracle’s Still Better
Hewlett-Packard published a press release today announcing that it has closed off the $10.3 billion acquisition of Autonomy, a UK-based analytics firm. The electronics giant acquired 213,421,299 shares of the company for $39.28 per share in cash, 87.34 percent worth, and has now assumed control of it. “The acquisition positions HP as a leader in the ...
Juniper Networks Unveils Network-as-a-Service Offering
Juniper Networks announced Junosphere Lab, a cloud offering that provides a testing ground for network engineers, technicians and other staffers. This network-as-a-service offering is the first of its kind, according to Juniper, which also claims companies can reduce overhead costs by 90 percent and speed service delivery by 30 percent when using its product. Junosphere ...
On Eve of iPhone Event, Expectations are High
An email sent out by Apple late last month to select tech reports inviting them to attend an event at their Cupertino headquarters on October 4, which also contained the words “let’s talk iPhone,” tells us that we’re very close to the debut of the latest version of the handset. It fits in with the ...
Oracle Performance Not Aligned with a Big Data Approach
Oracle Open World 2011 kicked off this week, and SiliconANGLE will be delivering live coverage and analysis all throughout the event. We’ve already had some fun with CEO Larry Ellison’s keynote from last night, which set the tone for the event spanning the next couple of days. As the conference gets under way, we can ...
This Week in the Cloud: From Backup to Mobile
Several companies had some notable updates in the cloud space this week, and it seems mobile is the segment that really stood out. Enterprises are starting to give their workers more flexibility to facilitate better productivity, and collaboration, as well as and increased, or rather extended availability. The first development is the latest edition of ...
Karmasphere Secures $6M to Grow Hadoop, Big Data
Karmasphere, a company that offers an analytics engine that sits on top of the Hadoop data processing infrastructure, announced today that it has closed a second round of funding for $6 million. New investor Presidio Ventures, and existing backers Hummer Winblad and US Venture Partners participated in the round, which brings the total venture capital ...
Jump Desktop Tops Best iPad and Android Tablet Business Apps
This week brings with it another five iPad and Honeycomb business apps worth considering. Jump Desktop takes the number one spot, thanks to some prime feature capabilities. The virtual desktop client got the highest rating in its category from O’Reilly’s “Best iPhone Apps list, and comes with multi-protocol support. It offers better performance, and several ...
Social Media “Panic” Follows The Onion Tweets of “Rampage” in Congress
Spoof news publication The Onion decided to stir some buzz around its freshest piece by tweeting “BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside the Capitol building,” about an hour prior to sending other tweets that managed to pinpoint the actual prank more boldly . However, at least at first, it seems that the message didn’t ...
Details on Deceased FalconStor CEO Slowly Emerge
Reijane Huai, the former chief executive of cloud backup solutions provider FalconStor, died the day before he was reportedly about to plead guilty to charges of bribery given to a FalconStor customer. Authorities believed Huai has committed suicide. That particular customer has not been revealed yet, though there are additional details about the circumstances of ...